Show THE crisis CHISIS the washington capitol ca pitol of oct 16 S 1 has the following 1 we are promised a crisis a real cr crisis ls in Mornion dom on inquiry we learn that this crisis is effected by an open packing of a brand grand jury and by the same process a p petit atit jury we are averse to polygamy but atter alter a careful investigation of the proposed legal suppression we are driven to say thal that it 14 is our judiciary and not polygamy that is being tried and sorely tried if the tele telegraph raph r correctly reports the count court wh whether ether oe he judge is really so ignorant as not to know his duty or so vicious vic ious lous a as to d disregard la regard it or both we are at it a I 1 say but butt with a cool audacity that is without a parallel since the days of the infamous joffrie jeffries sf he sets up a religious test teat and through it sifts out his jury he bays says in his address I 1 Is it expected that burglars will be put upon a jury to try a burglar or a bigamist to try one charged with that offense poor devil he fails to see the difference between a crime when a wrong esdone is done an innocent party and the state and an immoral practice when no olie one complains of bein being g injured nor does this astute expounder of law even inquire into the overt act of the challenged juryman he asks are you yon a member of the church of latter latten day saints and do you believe in iii the practice af pf polygamy the questioned citizen answering yea verily he Is ordered to stand aside this lda lia is a religious religions test unknown io to the tho la law and when asked and acted on ort passes passes passe 8 a a legal tribunal into a lynch court bourt where the judge violates the law be he is sworn aborn to sustain and this is the legal treat to which aich we are invited polygamy is a nile tile practice but all thought thoughtful fal ful minds will concur in expressing the belief that thai we wet procure its annihilation at a eab keavy heavy cost whew we destroy our courts and etch fetch justice info into such contempt the fact is this so called judge belongs to a corrupt ring that bought its way into I 1 power through our present receiving president of and has been laboring with great griat zeal to bring on a conflict between the mor fensand mens mons sand and our government these men nion have their greedy eyes on the rich mines lately opened in utah and hope through a I 1 bloody war to possess themselves bf koo the treasure treasurer and while this learned high hi h toned tonea expounder of bf legal morals is vl holding forth in InU utah tah tab the grayest gravest charge charges sor of copf coif corrupt practices preferred by an united states senator are hanging over his judi jual cial head in washington how now we wj are assured by the more thoughtful fialho who have visited utah during year ear that polygamy is rapidly dying out before before oar our christian civilization thab that railroad facilities and a desire for gold have brought in contact with the ba l but nut this sort of bf thing does nonsuit not sult bult the tin g newmans who from the earliest day have stained the earth with blood nor ngn the greedy ring zing that hope through war to dil fill their thel zyg pockets ek e ts i |